*** Shutting down the border will have one devastating effect: Heroin flow to the colossal market of addicts will be squeezed down to a trickle. I would take joy that the junkies in America all go cold turkey. That monkey has got to die. ***
Worked for a logistics outfit. A lot of things that go into American products come from Mexico. I don’t think any auto in the US is made w/o parts that come across at Laredo, TX. Also, needed parts for industrial equipment that go in everything from appliances to keeping the oil/gas boom going.
Trump knows this. I guess he thinks we do not.
A lot of things Mexico was getting from the US corn, wheat,soy will be imported from Argentina, Brazil, China.
The inspected parts of the border should be open for essential commercial traffic. There, high tech equipment can catch shipments in Mexican produce and other trick methods the cartels will devise. These ports of entry will become a bottleneck for the bulk of drug smuggling. Besides the drug traffic by the border jumpers, there is the traffic of drugs by people in air, motor transport and walk-ins. These will be shut down, leaving the bulk of traffic to the bottleneck and, of course, the border jumpers. This, of course, will impact the tourist trade, which is a big bite on the Mexican economy. Mexico will not know what hit them.
As for the border jumpers, their options are closing down as more of the wall is being built. Then, there is high-tech surveillance technology which will catch them as they jump the border in areas without walls. It will be real interesting how effective the surveillance will be. The walls are closing in on the drug cartels.
Addicts in America, take a big grip, the monkey on your backs will be starved. There will soon be cold turkey in November.